SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1099, 19 August 1873, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WEST POET. irrmi water. T>'i« I>».\ CM) ii.ui., 7.20 p.m. 10-morrow 7.48 a.m., 8.21 p.m. Thursday ... 8.80a.u. 9.16 u.n . APPARENT TIME. Sun Ki.*o. Sun Set. Thißuuy 6.47 ... 5.15 ' .i.i,nutow 6.40 ... 5 1G Thursday ... ... 6.45 ... 5.17 ARIiIVAIiS. Aug. 15—Wallace, p.s, M'Arthur, from Nelson. Aug. 17—-Waipara, s.s, Bascand, from Hokitika. DEPARTURES. Aug 16—Wallace, p.s, M'Arthur, for Greymouth. IMPORTS. Per Wallace, from Nelson —1 keg butter, 5 cs eggs, 12 bags potatoes, 2 do bacon, Simon ; 3j coups fowls, Salter ; 1 bdl, 1 case drapery, "Thomas and M'Beath ; 12 hlids, 8 qr-casks ale, Fulla ; 1 cs bacon, 2 do coffee, 14 sacks potatoes, Harold and Co.; 3 pkgs, Hay ; 4 cs bacon, It do coffee, Corr; 10 kegs butter, 4 cs bacon, Powell ; 1 cask eggs, Gardner and Sut.ton; 1 ikg papers, Munson ; 30 kegs butter, 2 pkgs, Bailie and Humphrey; 3 sacks oysters, order ; and 307 pkgs merchandise for southern ports. The steamer Waipara. en route from Hokitika to VVanganui, put into the Boiler on Sunday through stress of weather. She will leave this port probably this morning, and call in on her return trip.

Latest ieports state that there is every probability of the Rangitoto being afloat in a few days, she having escaped all injury with the exception of the loss of her funnel, from tho late gale. Her anchors, chains, spars, and sails, together with over A'looo worth of cargo, have been secured, and with the assistance of one or two lighters thai are to be taken over from Wellington, it is hoped that she may gradual!}' be worked to the shore anil pumped out. The hole created by striking the rock is reported by the divers to be about seven feet long by six inches in width, and one that can easily bo stopped. It seems therefore extremely likely that the N.Z S.S. Company will very soon have succeeded in including in their fleet, at a comparatively trifling cost, one of the finest boats that ever traded to New Zealand ports. The ship E win Fox, now lying at Lyttolton, has been added to the fleet hailing from Melbourne, having been bought by Messrs S. R. and C. Groom, and others, from a London firm, for the sum of £BSOO. The Edwin Fox is of 892 tons register, and carries a cargo of 1200 tons of carl. She was built of teak, in Calcutta, sixteen years ago, and was then classed at LI <yd's for twenty-one years.